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We had a feeling that the scaled-down light rail project -- to stretch 3.4 miles from riverfront to New Center -- had too much momentum to be de-railed for long. It's certainly no done deal yet, but the fact that the private-sector group behind the Woodward Corridor line says it will pay for a decade's worth of operating costs portends well.

The story is breaking all over town at press time. We like this one by Kate Abbey-Lambertz of HuffPost Detroit.